Session 1️⃣: Welcome & Intro to Digital Trace Data
👉 Part of the SPP DFG Project Integrating Data Donations in Survey Infrastructure
1. Intro to the workshop
2. What is digital trace data?
3. How can we collect digital traces?
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Professor of Digital Media and Communication
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| ⏰ 10–10:15am | Session 1️⃣: Welcome & Intro to Digital Traces |
| ⏰ 10:15–11am | Session 2️⃣: Data Donation Studies (Participant Perspective) |
| ⏰ 11am–12:15pm | Session 3️⃣: Data Donation Studies (Researcher Perspective) |
| 🥖12:15–13:15pm | Lunch break |
| ⏰ 13:15–2pm | Session 4️⃣: Bias in Digital Trace Data & Outro |
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Definition 💡: The recording and storing of activities on digital platforms to draw conclusions about digital and analog phenomena
Definition 💡: The recording and storing of activities on digital platforms to draw conclusions about digital and analog phenomena
Example: Instagram Like
Definition 💡: The recording and storing of activities on digital platforms to draw conclusions about digital and analog phenomena
Example: Instagram Like
Depending on the data collection method… (Haim & Hase, 2023; Ohme et al., 2024):
Source: Keusch & Kreuter, 2023, p. 102
Be careful: These “advantages” of traces are often claimed, but empirically disputed.
Digital traces are neither necessarily less biased, nor cheaper, or larger (we will discuss this in Session 4️⃣).
👉 More data does not mean better data!
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Which methods do you know/have you used for collecting digital trace data? 🤔
Questions? 🤔
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